Turfed at Hackney Downs Studios

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Low be it spoken, but I’m not big on football. I am still waiting to catch
World Cup fever. Therefore Turfed, which features a football pitch,
may not sound like my bag. In the course of this — in fact really rather
wonderful — devised show (part of London’s international theatre festival
LIFT) a team of 11 quietly assured performers (male and female and
multicultural, all in their teens or twenties) take the field inside a
barn-sized industrial space with a bare concrete floor. They unfurl a huge
swathe of synthetic grass and erect goalposts as banks of lights pulse dimly
overhead.